Personality Differences of Offenders and Nonoffenders

1973 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 241-242 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Christensen ◽  
Arnold Leunes
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Function ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Similarities And Differences

Discriminant analysis was used to isolate the similarities and differences between offenders and nonoffenders. 114 public offenders and 152 college students were administered the Thorndike Dimensions of Temperament. One discriminant function ( p < .0001) was obtained. The weights indicated that the responsible, sociable, accepting, ascendant and tough-minded dimensions separated the two groups.

Death Threat and Death Concerns in the College Student

1981 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jerome Tobacyk ◽  
Daniel Eckstein
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
College Student ◽  
Trait Anxiety ◽  
Analysis Of Covariance ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Education Students ◽  
Personality Variables ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Threat Index

A four part investigation of death orientation in college students using the provided-construct form of the Threat Index and the Death Concern Scale was conducted. Part I investigated the construct validity of the Threat Index, reporting significant predicted correlations of the Threat Index with the Death Concern Scale, Trait Anxiety Scale, and Repression-Sensitization Scale. Part II explored death orientation and personality differences between a Thanatology Group (death education students) and a Control Group. Thanatology students reported significantly lesser death threat and significantly greater death concerns than controls. Part III compared pre-test to post-test changes in death threat and death concerns for the Thanatology Group with pre-post changes for the Control Group. Using analysis of covariance procedures, a significantly greater decline in death threat was obtained in the Thanatology Group relative to the controls. Part IV explored two personality variables–trait anxiety and repression-sensitization–as moderators of change in death orientation in the Thantology Group. Trait anxiety was found to be a significant predictor of change in death threat in the Thanatology Group, with lesser anxiety associated with greater decline in death threat.

Analyse discriminante et vocabulaire politique : Essai méthodologique

Res Publica ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-97
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Chapelle ◽  
Pierre Couvreur ◽  
Giuseppe Pagano
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Function ◽  
The Other ◽  
Limited Sample ◽  
Ideological Differences ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Political Speeches ◽  
Lexical Items

This paper aims at testing the hypothesis of growing ideological uniformity of political speeches. If political speeches lack ideological differences, it should be difficult to re-classify them only by analyzing the presence or absence of lexical items. We first worked out a method to classify political speeches and then carried a test on two speeches by leading Belgian French-speaking politicians.  The method is based on discriminant analysis. It utilizes the words most encountered in one speech and not in the other as discriminant factors. Statistical softwares then assess a discriminant function used to re-classify short parts of each speech called blocks. The most discriminating 10 factors re-classify correctly 89% of the blocks. The percentage increases to 93% with 20 factors and to 98% with 30 factors.However the results should be taken with caution because of the limited sample, the test tends to question the growing uniformity of political speeches. The sampled ones had enough specific features for allowing a rather simpte method to re-classify most parts of them correctly, even if some typically ideological items are not to be found.

scholarly journals Application of multivariate techniques in the evaluation of pure lines of beans

2016 ◽  
Vol 46 (9) ◽  
pp. 1535-1541 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodolfo Schmit ◽  
Rita Carolina de Melo ◽  
Thayse Cristine Vieira Pereira ◽  
Mattheus Beck ◽  
Altamir Frederico Guidolin ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Function ◽  
Block Design ◽  
Original Data ◽  
Inbred Lines ◽  
Canonical Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Multivariate Techniques ◽  
Testing Hypotheses ◽  
Randomized Block Design ◽  
Pure Lines

ABSTRACT: The objective of this study was to apply multivariate techniques, canonical discriminant analysis, and multivariate contrasts, indicating the most favorable inferences in the evaluation of pure lines of beans. The study was conducted at the experimental field of the Institute for Breeding and Molecular Genetics, in Lages, SC, Brazil. The experiment was composed of 24 pure lines of beans from the Santa Catarina test of cultivars. Plant height, numbers of pods and grains per plant, and stem diameter were the variables measured. The complete randomized block design was used with four replications. The data were subjected to multivariate analysis of variance, canonical discriminant analysis, multivariate contrasts and univariate contrasts. The first canonical discriminant function has captured 81% of the total variation in the data. The Scott-Knott test showed two groups of inbred lines at the average -of scores of the first canonical discriminant function. It was considered that testing hypotheses with the canonical scores may result in loss of information obtained from the original data. Multivariate contrasts indicated differences within the group formed by the Scott-Knott test. The canonical discriminant analysis and multivariate contrasts are excellent techniques to be combined in the multivariate assessment, being used to explore and test hypotheses, respectively.

scholarly journals Family companies and the costs of governance mechanisms: A discriminant analysis for a sample of Algerian companies

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Mohamed Cherif BENZOUAI
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Function ◽  
Lower Cost ◽  
Agency Problem ◽  
Governance Structure ◽  
Governance Mechanisms ◽  
Corporate Governance Mechanisms ◽  
The Family

This paper aims at shedding light on the importance of corporate governance mechanisms costs when considering the decision of adoption of those mechanisms by companies, by relying on the discriminant analysis of a sample of 112 Algerian unlisted companies. The special nature of the agency problem in family companies allows it to adopt a different and lower cost governance structure than other companies. The study found that the variables that reflect corporate governance mechanisms have a significant effect in the discriminant function between the family companies and the rest of the companies.

The Use of Function and Form When Reading Mechanical Engineering Drawings by Experts and Non-Experts

1990 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Chovan ◽  
Manjula B. Waldron
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Graduate Students ◽  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Design Features ◽  
Intelligent Cad ◽  
Cad Systems ◽  
Line Drawings ◽  
Engineering Drawings ◽  
Similarities And Differences ◽  
Form Information

Abstract Function to form information used in reasoning about mechanical engineering drawings based on experience in design was investigated. The verbal utterances of expert mechanical designers, quasi-experts (graduate students) and novices while reading 13 mechanical engineering line drawings were recorded and analyzed for function to form relationships. A discriminant analysis of descriptions of these drawings showed similarities and differences between the design features used by each group when reasoning about the drawings. The results of this analysis and their implications for the development of intelligent CAD systems are discussed.

Life-Style Distinction Between Customers and Non-Customers of Sikkim Cymbidium

2018 ◽  
pp. 14-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajeya Jha ◽  
Bibeth Sharma ◽  
Jitendra Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Function ◽  
Life Style ◽  
Final Analysis ◽  
Likert Scale ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Local Economy ◽  
Strategy Formulation ◽  
Important Input

For marketers, it is a vital to be able to differentiate customers from non-customers for their product. Sikkim a tiny Himalayan state in India is the home of globally known cymbidium orchids. It has been identified as a product that can boost local economy. In order to achieve this, it is important to formulate marketing strategies. One important input in strategy formulation is to prepare a customer profile. This is based on demographic, geographic and psychographic factors. This paper develops a customer profile purely on identified Activities, Interest and Opinions (AIO). Methodology involves collecting data from buyers and non-buyers of Cymbidium orchids about their life-style. Statements were framed on Likert scale (1-5). In all five variables have been tested. Final analysis is based on discriminant analysis. Results indicate a weak discriminant function but 90% respondents are correctly identified as buyers and non-buyers.

The contribution of skills in the interpretation of a volleyball set result with minimum score difference across genders

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 542-551
Author(s):  
Sotirios Drikos ◽  
Konstantinos Sotiropoulos ◽  
Karolina Barzouka ◽  
Yannis Angelonidis
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Function ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Ordinal Scale ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Score Difference ◽  
Minimum Score ◽  
Women's Volleyball

The aim of the present study was to identify volleyball skills that best discriminate between winning and losing in a set with the minimum score difference of men’s and women’s volleyball. The data have been collected for men from 140 and for women from 98 teams’ performances in all sets finished with 2 points difference between the top four teams in the final ranking during the men’s and women’s Greek Volleyball League for five seasons (2013–2014 until 2017–2018). The primary recorded and evaluated skills from 119 sets for men and women respectively are: 3422 and 2419 serves, 2916 and 2120 passes, 2566 and 1656 attacks after serve’s pass, 1518 and 1804 counter-attacks (after defense) and 1595 and 818 blocks. For the evaluation scale of each skill, a six-level ordinal scale was employed, with the value of “one” indicating a poorly executed skill and the value of “six” an excellent executed skill. The analysis revealed significant multivariate differences in gender and in the type of result and not in their interaction. A follow-up discriminant analysis showed that attack 1 is the most important performance indicator for male teams. Meanwhile, for female teams, the most important performance indicators are winning attack after serve’s pass but also counter-attack. The discriminant function classified correctly 67% and 58%, for men and women respectively, allowing space for further improving the critical performance indicators for both genders.

Personality Differences between Christian and Secular College Students

1976 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-159 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl B. Dodrill
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Practical Significance ◽  
Christian Belief ◽  
Social Contacts ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Christian Students ◽  
Objective Evidence

Evangelicals almost routinely assume that the personalities of Christians are different from those of non-Christians, but there is little objective evidence for this assertion. The Guilford-Zimmerman Temperament Survey was used to evaluate personality differences between Christian students and two groups of secular students. A number of statistically significant differences were found which suggested that Christian students had fewer social contacts than secular students but that they saw themselves as more friendly and good-natured. In addition, Christian females saw themselves as more submissive and less energetic than their secular counterparts. These differences were so small, however, that they were of no practical significance, and the possibility that they might be related to factors other than Christian belief could not be eliminated. The implications of the study for the integration of psychology with Christianity were discussed.

Discriminant Analysis of Multivariates Taken from a Single Population

1981 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 929-936
Author(s):  
Holly H. Hollingsworth
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Linear Function ◽  
Discriminant Function ◽  
Null Hypothesis ◽  
Single Population ◽  
Discriminant Score ◽  
Data Analyst ◽  
Sample Test

The null hypothesis of a one-sample test of multivariate means states that the population centroid is equal to a vector of specified constants. If this hypothesis is rejected, then the distance from the population centroid to the hypothesized centroid is different from zero. The purpose of this paper is to present a linear function (analogous to a discriminant function) which will allow the data analyst to interpret the dimension of the line joining the two centroids. The statistics developed to interpret this dimension are the coefficients of a discriminant function and the correlation of each dependent variable with a discriminant score. A data example is also presented to demonstrate the material and contrast it with conventional methodology.

Philosophical Positions of Nuns and Former Nuns: A Discriminant Analysis

1974 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 675-678 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geraldine Hart ◽  
Kenneth A. Ames ◽  
Robert N. Sawyer
Keyword(s):  
Discriminant Analysis ◽  
Discriminant Function ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
Religious Order ◽  
Ames Philosophical Belief Inventory ◽  
Decision To Stay ◽  
Screening Device ◽  
Point Of Departure

To a sample of 24 Sisters and 28 former Sisters was administered the Ames Philosophical Belief Inventory, and a discriminant-function was calculated along with the Generalized Mahalanobis D2. The statistically significant discriminant-function suggests the Ames inventory can be employed as a screening device when selecting members of a religious community and also as a point of departure in the discussion of the implications of the decision to stay or to leave a religious order.

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